Yeah, pretty much. :)

Oh, if they were real punk rock girls they'd have eaten me alive!

NEVAR!

Plenty of 80s movies referenced Polka or Gregorian chants, too — that doesn't mean they were blazing up the top 40 charts or in heavy rotation on MTV. Hell… country music had fallen so far out of favor back in the 80s as to have been "underground".

I did not say "metal was *all* of the most conformist music ever".

There were a lot of vegan punks back in the 90s so.. yeah, dunno where I'm going with this, but, hey, they existed, and were insufferable.

That's why we started calling it "modern rock".

MxPx makes me want to smoke crack.

!@#$ that — the Boise scene was for posers! Everyone knows the real punks were in Coeur d'Alene!

Just because the Ramones played American Bandstand does not mean Punk had broken mainstream. Hip-Hop was a giant fad in 1984 but it didn't become mainstream music until the early 90s.

Yeah, the US hadn't been in a war for a long time and all us kids only knew about it from movies, so everyone was convinced that Iraq was going to be a clusterfuck that went on for a decade, cost thousands and thousands of lives, and bankrupted the country. Boy, its a good thing we stopped short of toppling the regime!

LA was full of punks and goths and whatever you call industrial fans back in the 80s, and yet the "L.A. Rock Scene" MTV sold us was the Sunset Strip hair metal wannabe biker rock — all these assholes from Indiana who showed up in Hollywood on a Greyhound. Even out in Camarillo, I knew this was bullshit, but Republican…

Metal is some of the most conformist music ever.

Well, yeah — punk was only ever an underground thing in the States. In the UK and Australia, it was pop music.

…also, if you're calling the 80s Hardcore scenes "First Wave", you're already wrong.

Not all the hippies were liberal. Many were Jesus freaks, for example, so it didn't take much for them to turn that right back around. Hell, a lot of Wiccans in the 1990s were gun-toting conservatives.

Since it was the 90s, can I assume these were all Ska-Punk covers of 80s New Wave songs?

Oh, my! I never realized that Punk existed back in the 1970s! My entire worldview is now shattered. Thank you! Thank you, Core Concept, for showing me the truth!

I still have the arrest record from the night of that incident at the Philly Pizza Company and for being an accessory to auto theft to remember her by.

Think he'll touch on all the seriously hardline, right-wing straight edge scenes in the midwest?